2016 World Masters Orienteering Championships

Last updated December 20, 2024

World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) are annual international orienteering competitions and the official world championship for orienteering runners above the age of 35.

Sprint

Sprint qualification was held in Tallinn Kadrioru Park, the most outstanding palatial and urban park in Estonia, and sprint finals were held in Tallinn's Old Town. 25 champions were celebrated the first final day 8 August 2016.^[3]

MEN M35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Dmitry Mihalkin	Sergey Borovkov	Pavel Krasko	3.54 km, 21 controls

WOMEN W35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Galina Vinogradova	Katri Lindeqvist	Elli Virta	3.16 km, 19 controls

MEN M40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Petteri Muukkonen	Martin Larsson	Nick Barrable	3.46 km, 22 controls

WOMEN W40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Annika Björk	Kirti Rebane	Irita Pukite	2.99 km, 20 controls

MEN M45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Thomas Jensen	Janne Salmi	Tero Heikkilä	3.32 km, 19 controls

WOMEN W45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Natasha Key	Anna Gornicka-Antonowicz	Natalia Naumova	2.74 km, 17 controls

MEN M50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Tsvetan Todorov	Michael Finkenstaedt	Clive Hallett	3.16 km, 19 controls

WOMEN W50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Airi Alnek	Anne Nurmi	Annamari Vierikko	2.52 km, 17 controls

MEN M55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Stefan Bolliger	Juhani Jetsonen	Kari Lehto	2.99 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Marje Viirmann	Kane Andersson	Monika Ammann	2.47 km, 19 controls

MEN M60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	James Crawford	Geoff Lawford	Jorma Nissilä	2.74 km, 17 controls

WOMEN W60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Alena Rosecka	Unni Strand Karlsen	Alison Simmons	2.10 km, 15 controls

MEN M65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Raimo Hyyryläinen	Keld Johnsen	Kai Saksman	2.47 km, 19 controls

WOMEN W65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Maria Nordwall	Tamara Ovsyannikova	Liz Godfree	1.90 km, 14 controls

MEN M70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Olli Lehtinen	Risto Orpana	Timo Peltola	2.08 km, 13 controls

WOMEN W70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Kari Timenes Laugen	Torid Kvaal	Turid Nystrom	1.74 km, 12 controls

MEN M75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Helmut Conrad	Leif Engen	Yotaro Ogasawara	1.85 km, 13 controls

WOMEN W75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Ilse Uus	Birgitta Olsson	Erica Huggler	1.53 km, 12 controls

MEN M80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Jaroslav Havlik	Rune Carlsson	Alois Laznicka	1.53 km, 12 controls

WOMEN W80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Ebba-Lisa Flygar	Bernice Antonsson	Anna Barbara Schaffner	1.28 km, 11 controls

MEN M85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Atsushi Takahashi	Peter Larsen	Carles Llado	1.28 km, 11 controls

WOMEN W85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Vre Harzenmoser	Eileen Bedwell	Sole Nieminen	1.15 km, 8 controls

MEN M90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Arvo Majoinen	Adolf Kempf	Bengt Borg	1.04 km, 9 controls

WOMEN W90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Elvy Fredin	Lena Nordahl		1.04 km, 9 controls

WOMEN W95

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Astrid Andersson			1.04 km, 9 controls

Long distance

Long qualification was held at Kõrvemaa, a wilderness area, dominated by glacial landforms, coniferous forests and extensive bogs, and the long distance final at Pikasaare, with competition centre located in Estonian Defence Forces main military training field, a pine and spruce forest with many features typical of morainic terrain. 24 champions were celebrated the last final day 13 August 2016.^[4]

MEN M35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Dmitry Mihalkin	Andreas Kraas	Jakob Jansson	12.66 km, 22 controls

WOMEN W35

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Elli Virta	Rebecka Lindberg	Sanna Paukkunen	8.03 km, 15 controls

MEN M40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Petteri Muukkonen	Jani Virta	Simo Martomaa	11.5 km, 21 controls

WOMEN W40

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Irita Pukite	Annika Björk	Kirti Rebane	7.36 km, 14 controls

MEN M45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Johan Pettersson	Tommy Lindberg	Ilya Gusev	10.51 km, 21 controls

WOMEN W45

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Natasha Key	Natalia Naumova	Anna Gornicka-Antonowicz	6.04 km, 13 controls

MEN M50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Oleg Anuchkin	Hakan Kleijn	Alexander Afonyushkin	9.5 km, 20 controls

WOMEN W50

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Annika Viilo	Laila B.Höglund	Anita Wehlin	5.56 km, 12 controls

MEN M55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Hakan Eriksson	Jozef Pollak	Christer Skoog	7.94 km, 16 controls

WOMEN W55

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Marje Viirmann	Sirkka Oikarinen	Kane Andersson	5.31 km, 12 controls

MEN M60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Rolf Lund	Jorma Nissilä	Vasilii Mikhailov	7.11 km, 15 controls

WOMEN W60

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Lidia Shorokhova	Alida Abola	Virginija Gvildiene	5.09 km, 10 controls

MEN M65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Tapio Peippo	Pekka Marti	Pekka Kerkola	6.73 km, 13 controls

WOMEN W65

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Tamara Ovsyannikova	Vappu Hyvärinen	Maria Nordwall	4.75 km, 9 controls

MEN M70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Risto Wessman	Heikki Rusko	Jorma Hyyryläinen	6.15 km, 14 controls

WOMEN W70

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Kari Timenes Laugen	Galina Vershinina	Tatiana Svistun	4.24 km, 8 controls

MEN M75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Helmut Conrad	Gunnar Österbö	Anders Taraldrud	5.15 km, 12 controls

WOMEN W75

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Birgitta Olsson	Siv Hasselgrund	Liudmila Labutina	3.32 km, 7 controls

MEN M80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Rune Carlsson	Tapio Patana	Heino Mardiste	4.24 km, 9 controls

WOMEN W80

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Ebba-Lisa Flygar	Laila Malmqvist	Tiiu Tiigimägi	2.44 km, 6 controls

MEN M85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Pentti Pelkonen	Eero Liski	Palle Bay	3.35 km, 7 controls

WOMEN W85

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Lisa Hedström	Signe Nyman	Sole Nieminen	1.49 km, 6 controls

MEN M90

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Arvo Majoinen	Adolf Kempf	Ragnar Hasselquist	2.27 km, 7 controls

WOMEN W95

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Length and controls
2016	Astrid Andersson			1.09 km, 4 controls

External links

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References

↑ "World Masters Orienteering Championships 2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-16.
↑ "IOF Eventor. World Masters Orienteering Championships 2016" . Retrieved 2018-10-23.
↑ "WMOC Sprint Final 08.08.2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-19.
↑ "WMOC Long Final 13.08.2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-19.

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[1] "World Masters Orienteering Championships 2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-16.

[2] "IOF Eventor. World Masters Orienteering Championships 2016" . Retrieved 2018-10-23.

[3] "WMOC Sprint Final 08.08.2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-19.

[4] "WMOC Long Final 13.08.2016" . Retrieved 2018-07-19.

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